Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

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.

If you 'don't do politics', trust me - politics will do you.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

Being in this band [the Spice Girls] is like having four (three now) older sisters. They all look after me and I couldn't dream of leaving them.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Don't bring a prop. It's almost like they were afraid nobody would know who they are.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

It's almost like we have ESPN.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.