He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

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.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

Where did all these damn Indians come from?

We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.

"The Big Lebowski" is a real masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I suppose I'm a bit biased because I'm in it.

I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.