Leo Tolstoy

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

God is the same everywhere.

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

If you want to be happy, be.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Women, take the pressure off when dating. He has to impress you – not the other way around. You are the prize.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

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.

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

Imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

I’ve never had a problem with how I look. I’d rather have lunch with friends than go to the gym.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the mirror of literature?

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.

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

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

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

I can’t bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery