You know how a gardenia's petals reveal any telltale fingermarks by turning brown," the preacher said. "Your lives are like that. Purity is like that . . . Young people, don't give anything to the world to destroy. Don't be ashamed of high ideals, dreams, and beautiful thoughts.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.

In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.