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

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 experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

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

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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

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.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

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.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

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

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

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.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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

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.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

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.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

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.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

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.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.