Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

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.

There is salvation for every soul.

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Love for you dances within & around my core of being as regular as the beat of my heart. As certain as the draw and release of each breath.

I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.