A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

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.

When we will learn to use our love as a currency to buy the peace, peace will be there.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

I definitely think anything I’d be in now is a permanent relationship.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.