The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

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.

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick