Being willing is not enough. We must do.

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

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.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

I buy about $1, 500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

That loss is common would not make My own less bitter, rather more: Too common! Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.

The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.