The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body books feed the mind beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you and in that you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation and without being allowed the preliminary trials the failures and botches that are essential for training.