Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Money can’t buy life.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

He who angers you conquers you.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.