Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

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.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

President Obama is in China. Today he visited the kids who make our cellphones.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!