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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

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

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

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

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

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

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

God created man, but I could do better.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

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

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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.

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

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.