The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives.

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.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

The world belongs to the articulate.

Some people are so solemn. They take their practice so seriously, that when the moment comes to let go of it, they can't.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Human beings take social stances, and if you’re respectful of all human beings, you have to decide what you’re going to do and why you’re going to do it.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Sexuality is pushed back more and more and people try to replace what they've lost with other forms of excitement.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.