Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

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.

Vision is not fiction

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Feelings aren't right or wrong, they just are, and we can accept all feelingsno matter what they are...If you can take that in, it will free you up.

Once out from it, never made a sound. Without sound, you never know who dies and who know so you dare?

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

Love is God and God is love, no one's below and no one's above.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.