Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

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.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

Sufferings helps to soften the harden heart.

God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are.

If we are to succeed we must communicate.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

This storm is dangerous

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.