I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

I love the game it's the greatest game on earth that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty how many ghastly mortifying missteps how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment how partial all accomplishment is how incomplete?

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Imperfection is beauty madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour the beauty the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.