Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

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.

I've never felt as happy as I've been for the past month. And I've never loved anyone like I love you right now.

Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.

I'd found my niche: cat-owning, stalker-y secretary. And I played the same part again and again and again.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.