How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

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.

Earth without "art" is just "eh

Some times it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.

You too could strive, thrive, and become as great or even greater than the people that you admire.

These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.

When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.