We ought not to desire the impossible.

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.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

I am not the world's most confident person.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.