There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

Perception precedes reality.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.