It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.

Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Ask God and the angels to help you to meet people who will treat you with respect and love.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

If I'm going to an event I make sure I plan ahead so that I don't have a fashion crisis.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.