In time and with water, everything changes.

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.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.''A maid is still a woman.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us. That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

Peace will come to the world when the people have enough noodles to eat.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.