We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

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 inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

old age' is always ten years more than we are.

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.