O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam—you’re a guru, ready for your groupies.

If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

Your choices of action may be limited, but your choices of thought are not.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

Music has always felt very real to me.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.