He who can copy can do.

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.

It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.

I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?