Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

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.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.