A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

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.

Awareness is the fuel that powers change

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.

Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.

When a thing bores you, do not do it.

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.