If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

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.

Be soft, don't let the world make you hard. Be gentle, don't let the people make you difficult. Be kind, don't let the realities of life steal your sweetness and make you heartless.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.