You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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.
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.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
