Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

I might not have superpowers, but I know how to knee a guy in the nuts.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

What can the harvest hope for...

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.