A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the 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.

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

Just because I was married to Aly Khan, people think I'm rich. Well, I'm not. I never got a dime from Aly or from any of my husbands.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.