We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

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.

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.