The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

Owr brave little shank!

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.