I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Life means Live in faith existence.

Having total belief in your own efforts can't help much but can only be your best point of total failure.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.