throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

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.

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

The hard part is putting one word after another.

So be careful when you bend over.

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.

The main purpose of education isn't just to receive a certification that leads to a career, but to become a well-rounded person in so many aspects of life.

The lake was no longer frozen

I've just been to a debutant ball where all the girls were wearing low-cut gowns. It's clear why they're called coming out parties.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

When you're tired of what you got, try me

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.