I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

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.

To solve a problem, change your awareness, perception, and consciousness about the problem.

Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.

The grass is always green if God is watering it.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

I do like to sing to God!

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.