A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

People are fascinating. Especially the ones who hate me.

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

I used to be more glamorous.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.