It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Search for beauty without features something deeper than any signs.

Perfect health like perfect beauty is a rare thing and so it seems is perfect disease.

Suddenly life has new meaning to me there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of you wake up suddenly you're in love.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us the beauty of nature the beauty of human beings.

Far from creating a new formalism what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High ' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven very different I decided - and indeed it is.

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.

I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music I felt the beauty in it. Then being able to tap along on a table top and box was great but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm flawless pitch flawless feeling and flawless beauty.

The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.

Beauty is everything.

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie which made me opt for it.

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

The arts quite simply nourish the soul. They sustain comfort inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows the light and dark which that thing provides.