There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

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.

And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

We become who we hang out with.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.