It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

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.

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.

Keep windows of your mind always open, and let the breeze of peace come in with the fragrance of happiness.

I nod in the darkness. He embraces me and before long he's fast asleep, a man with clear consiense and an open heart. I stay awake, listening to his breath and thinking of the webs we weave.

I let you discover my skin but you found a way under.

The more you look, the less you see.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

Morality binds and blinds.

Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.