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

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

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 a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

The L.A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.