There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

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.

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.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

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.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It’s psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I’m always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.