He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

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.

Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become.

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

I am very down to earth and practical.

The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.