Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

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.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

It was a fruit we had never seen before, larger than an apple, about the size of a grapefruit. It was round and yellow like the leaves of a neglected book.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

My father was a great actor.