“Beauty will save the world.”

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Stars fade away in the morning, but your beauty still remains evident. Perhaps stars envy you.

Beauty cannot be measured in megapixels.

There’s some beauty in a girl holding a glass of wine.

Sometimes you need to take a small break from the world to realise its beauty.

You may fall in love with the beauty of someone. But remember you have to live with the character, not the beauty.

This cruel world fails to embrace the beauty of tender souls and then wonders why everyone turns cold?

See the beauty in everything. Start with yourself.

A Black beauty has to protect her skin at all cost.