A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

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.

When you were born, you were given a one-way ticket. You can never come back and visit your past.

wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.