Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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 town teeming with life. Full to overflowing. And every day, the good people counted their blessings. Every single one…

Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

When in doubt, go to the library.

My hatred is diamond-hard.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.