I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Every wall is a door.

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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Where there is love there is life.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

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

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

God helps those who help themselves.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

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

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.