The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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!

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.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

The earth laughs in flowers.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Every wall is a door.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.