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

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.

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.

You are a gold mine of potential power. You have to dig to find it and make it real.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

I love you" he said. I did not say anything. What could I say? If i said i love you too, i had perpetual punishment for being a liar.

Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.

We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!

Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality...which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?