Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

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 wonder when god will get a microchip?

Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.

Everything is mended by the soil.

False in one thing false in everything

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

You go through things sometimes that make you aware of the really good things in life.

Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Politics and football don't mix.