Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance int...

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how...

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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...

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had show...

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.