The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

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.

Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.

If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day you change.

Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.