Leo Tolstoy

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

To be your own person, you need good friends. Friends are the treasure of your life.

You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that.

A black person can’t be imperfect in the public eye, that’s a form of control.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women, and I’m very proud of that.

There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.

I enjoy being me; I always have done. I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I don’t want that in my life.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within- strength, courage, dignity.

I have insecurities, of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

I’m also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.

Huge ego is very often matched by huge insecurity.

I’m here to show you imperfection. The beauty is in the imperfection.

If you are able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that’s where power starts.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.