Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

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.

What does it mean?” Flynn turns to gaze at me, eyes finally meeting mine.I find myself smiling because I know exactly what it means. “It means the clouds are clearing on Avon.

...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

I went far and now I see that the only one I needed was me.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.