What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

A lucky guy, is anyone who would have the privilege of being around you, talking to you, holding your hand, making sure that you are safe and happy .

The Prophet Muhammad said: Innallaha jamiil wahuwa yuhibbul jamal. Verily God is beautiful and loves beauty. -33

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.

But the most important part of everything is to be happy.

So take a chance and don't ever look back.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.