That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

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.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

Reading is a breezy journey to enjoy, not a whirlwind to escape!

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.