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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'