Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

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.

Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.

I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.