The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

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.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.