All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

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.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going when he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

I don't know how perfect everybody is going to be in Heaven, but anyhow, certainly a lot better than here!

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

AMAZING GRACE is about the man who wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

Remember the death penalty is murder.