The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

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.

Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

The real you is not you

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.