It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

Live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other -Lady Gaga via twitter

"All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me."

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."

"And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love."

"Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

"Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God."

"Beauty stands at the gate of the kingdom of heaven. It is of the Creator, but not the Creator; and it is all-mighty."

"On the way to God you have to pass through beauty, pure beauty. If you do not pass through beauty it is not God that you find."

"Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God."

"Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community."

"I might be ugly, but my cars are real pretty."

"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."

"The beauty of life depends upon our good habits."

"I don't like facial hair, and I don't like kissing facial hair, as you cant find the lips."

"Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful."

"I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful."

"The most beautiful thing about Brazil that I always find that is so unlike any other place I've been in the world is the diversity of its people."