"Beauty is like aspirin. Good for everything."

When the human spirit is the smallest, the need for the beautiful is the greatest and most essential. It alone has the power to awaken and heal us when love and truth can not. A beautiful strain of music, a tender poem, fallen petals on a tabletop, the jumpy hair of children tumbling out of their beds in the morning—all these are an exquisite, ancient language understood only by the heart. The world is not beautiful just to please us. It is beautiful so we will learn how to be also.