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

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

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

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.

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.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

You're not crazy. In fact, you're perfect. Everything about you couldnt be more so if I made a list of all the qualities I wanted in a partner and special ordered you.

Don't stop, " she pleaded with swollen lips. "Please, Guy, don't stop."The same hunger that ran through him had taken her as well. What kind of man would he be to leave her with such need?

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.