A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

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.

Nature is always inviting you to see her beauty and power. She is attracting you with her dance, song, and love.

It takes two to Tao.

You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.