There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

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.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Show some mercy to your 'time', don't always waste it.

The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people.

You play the game to the end. That’s how it works

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.