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.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I like to feel blonde all over.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

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

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

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

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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!

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

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.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.