Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

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.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.

This is the average age of my Hunters, and all young maidens for whom I am patron, before they go astray.""Go astray?""Grow up. Become smitten with boys. Become silly, preoccupied, insecure.

That's it. New rule: no more flirting during the zombie apocalypse

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

When I'm in heels - and I live in heels - I take on a different posture, a different attitude, different energy.

I have had no professional training.