I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

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.

Remember that businesses are made up of humans like you. They aren’t going to be perfect and they will need encouragement, clarification, and correction to deliver their best.

He was not of an age but for all time!

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?