Hart & Kaufman: "Oh, the world's not..."

Grandpa: "Oh, the world's not so crazy... It's the people in it. Life's pretty simple if you just relax... Life is kind of beautiful if you let it come to you. But the trouble is, people forget that."

–Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You (Grandpa's point of view)

Jan-Philipp Sendker: "Love makes us beautiful..."

"Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is love unconditionally and who, at the same time is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question. There is no such person."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Martha Beck: "... he is no less beautiful..."

"... he is no less beautiful for being called ugly, no less wise for appearing dull, no less precious for being seen as worthless. And neither am I. Neither are you. Neither is any of us."

—Martha Beck, Expecting Adam

Patrick Pacheco: "Until that twelfth of..."

"Until that twelfth of never, what the world does have is art. Art that says, as it does in this musical, that 'In the middle of your life anything can happen.' Art that says that love is the greatest journey that heaven can allow. Art that says that while the pain of loss is ineffable and unending, the beauty of music can give voice to that pain and even redeem it."

- Patrick Pacheco, in the liner notes of the DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY cast album

Unknown: "Exult in the quotidian..."

"Exult in the quotidian beauty of life!"

-Unknown

Laura Munson: "When we're creating beauty..."

"When we're creating beauty, we align ourselves with our Designer. When we're receiving beauty, we're receiving 'the kingdom' in its best form."

—Laura Munson, This Is Not The Story You Think It Is

Buckminster Fuller: "When I'm working on..."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

—Buckminster Fuller