Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

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.

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

fortune has no era finer than this moment

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

There's a real danger in the way our representative government functions today. It functions properly only when paired with accountability.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.