Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

If you lock the door on sorrow, how will it leave your heart?

Vengeance is one of life's great motivators.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance, when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.