Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

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.

Education is meant to increase the confidence of a person to face the world.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do.

I'm a compassionate conservative.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.