“A real diamond is never perfect.”

“Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond.”

Patañjali (-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises

“Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.”

Anton Webern (1883–1945) Austrian composer and conductor

“As the diamond is the crystalline Revelator of the achromatic white light of Heaven, so is a perfect poem the crystalline revelation of the Divine Idea.”

Thomas Holley Chivers (1809–1858) 19th century American poet

“Gold is cold, diamonds are dead, a limousine is a car, don't pretend, feel what's real… ”

Charlize Theron (1975) film actress and producer, former fashion model

“If Rajini is a diamond, then KB and I worked together to perfect him. KB discovered him. I helped to polish him.”

Rajinikanth (1950) Indian actor

“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”

Rodman Philbrick book The Last Book in the Universe

“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”

Helen Steiner Rice (1900–1981) American poet

“I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917–2016) Hungarian-American socialite and actress

“I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor