You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

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.

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

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I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke.

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.

I thought I'd finally get to relax with Dimitri.

Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.