Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

I like to let my racket do the talking.

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.