But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

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.

Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.