The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

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.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle