It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

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

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I still think I am the greatest.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Seeing is not always believing.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

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.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

What is true belongs to me!

Few people have the imagination for reality.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.