Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but 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.

We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines

Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.