"Just think of the illimitable abundance and..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.”

“Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.”

“For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”

“The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.”

“I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.”

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”

“I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.”

“No institution will be better than the institutor.”

“Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!”