In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.

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.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

SPIKE: I’m a biker, babe. It’s in my blood to get what I want.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.

I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

You become what you believe.

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood