“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

“Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.”

“If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.”

“With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.”

“The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?”

“There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.”

“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”

“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”

“What distressed me most — more even than my own folly — was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?”