The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

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.

Bring to the table what you want to take away from the table!

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

I just wanted to live. I never wanted to hurt anyone. Please understand.

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

I just want a life that's full of up-leveled joy. And I'm ready to meet a nice man! Put that out there, too.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.