The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

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.

...life didn't always have to be so serious. That life was to be lived. That life was one great adventure, to be lived well and to the full.

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.