The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

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.

You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you'll lose them.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourselves.

That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

Why are they so sad?” I asked. “Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England