An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.

Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.