A gray day provides the best light.

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.

In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

I love being a carbon molecule.

Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by these theories the faith of some is undermined.

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.