Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

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.

It is unfortunate that many people today cannot realize the need around them.

There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew.

We rise up every morning and go to bed in the night by grace.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.

A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'