Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

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.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

True beauty comes from within and no one can ever change it.

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

Youd be surprised how inspired youll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.