To become an artist you have to be curious.

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 book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.