A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.(Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare.)

Emotionally intelligent people think before they speak and exercise discretion.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.