“ We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ”
“ If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ”
“ We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. ”
“ Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ”
“ Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ”
“ The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ”
“ Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. ”
“ Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. ”
“ There is a role and function for beauty in our time. ”
“ The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ”
“ As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. ”
“ The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ”
“ My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. ”
“ My father was never anti-anything in our house. ”
“ What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ”
“ There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later. ”
“ A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ”
“ Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. ”
“ 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. ”
“ Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration. ”