Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

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.

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Yes there were 15 to 20 terrorists. We managed to capture both of them!

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.

We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.