The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

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.

On the canvas of life, with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.

You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'