It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

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

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

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.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.