When you are alone you are all your own.

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 like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.

Hey, Tracy you army brat, I think it’s for you!

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

If you want to see why President Obama is worried this November, watch The Hope and the Change.

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

Yes, I don’t have any talent. That’s why I work hard.