The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Johann von Goethe

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Francis Bacon

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Audrey Hepburn

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.

Richard Feynman

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego

Ambrose Bierce

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe