Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

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

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

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Young people can create beautiful things.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

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.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

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!

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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.

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.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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

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

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The good is the beautiful.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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