It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

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.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

You are here to deliver a divine gift to the world.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

You have to work more than your adversary.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.