Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth—an instruction book didn't come with it.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

—Petrarch

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

—Pearl Buck

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

—Margaret Cho

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

—Margaret Cho

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

—Margaret Cho