It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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.

I got so strongly addicted to love that I may not be able to breath without it. I fall so fondly in love with poetry that I read it in my dreams often and even unknowingly.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh...

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.