He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

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.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower, Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour.

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.