“Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what is humanly beautiful might, as it were, be too beautiful for human beings, for which reason people are glad to place beauty in proximity to pigpens, as one is no doubt justified in saying.”

“The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.”

“That which is striking and beautiful is not always right,but that which is right is always beautiful ”

“He is without a doubt the most beautiful man on the planet, too beautiful for the little people below, too beautiful for me.”

“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body.”

“There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.”