The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

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.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.