Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

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.

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

The cosmos deals in the currency of emotion. When we feel good, goodness flows.

To be famous and broke is hard.

My life is bigger than basketball.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.