Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
A person always breaking off from work never finishes anything.
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness will not attain great happiness.
It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course.
He was Will, in all his perfect imperfection; Will, whose heart was as easy to break as it was carefully guarded; Will, who loved not wisely but entirely and with everything he had.
Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.
If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn't have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save us.
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell
Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.
For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.
One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
