The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

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.

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

Perfection can mask imperfection.

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.

One can have a wit, but not a witless

The only queen I ever dressed was Eva Perón.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.