How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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.

Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam

Against all odds, when the 'no' out-weighs the 'yes' faith become the only bridge to your answer

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

I want to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving

There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.