Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

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.

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.

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.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.

Marriag

I love humanity but I hate people.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

Love God, then do what you will.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.