To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

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.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

The cheapest route to a new opportunity is conversation.

In the years before the war, whenever [Adolf] Hitler would be holed up in Bayreuth, Eva [Braun], myself and our mother often went to Italy for a week.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

I found my voice in books.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

As India will complete 75 years of Independence in the year 2022, let's work towards Surajya & a nation where every section of society is developed.

I like to give people more than their money's worth.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.