I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

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.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

The weight of her expectations crumble me. I've always done the right thing. She expects me to make good choices but I don't even know what good choices look like...

I'm addicted to tattoos. I can't stop; I love them.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.