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.

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 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.

All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

They do respect her but, they love to watch her strut.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

Let's start with where you are,' he said. 'You're here.' Taking her hand, he pressed it to his chest above his heart.

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.