In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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.

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.

It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.

With each new album: I need to kill the last version of me.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.