“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Kings are the slaves of history.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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.

Sometimes waiting and seeing things unfold has its own beauty.

Look around. Look at what we have. Beauty is everywhere, you only have to look to see it.

Trust the patience. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of life.⁠

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.