If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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.

There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.