Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

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.

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".