I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

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.

My fate is like those envelopes – sealed and tossed aside.

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

A humble man speaks not of his own humility

Beautiful night, isn't it, Police Girl? It's especially beautiful if you're a bloodsucker.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

I dont' like talking to horses because they are naysayers