It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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.

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.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Why must I be lonely in love?

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking.

Everything starts from something but something would be nothing if your heart didn't dream with me.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?