In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

I generally think if you do good things for people in the world, that comes back and you benefit from it over time.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my mouth and a song comes out.

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.