Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.

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.

The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word—sin. It has crippled the nature of man . . .It has caused man to be caught in the devil’s trap.

Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.