Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

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.

Get around people who are trying to make a difference in the world. Iron sharpens iron.

I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity.

If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.