Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

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.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

At an age when most children love to play with toys, he played with weapons.

When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.