The moment has no time.

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.

The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise.

With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.

What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.