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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

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 awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

I don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can.