Oh 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.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Everyone has to have hope in their life, or they will eventually become your enemy.

The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.

Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. He had lost all he possessed of worldly property

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.