If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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.

It takes critical thinking to frame the right problem and empathetic thinking to address the correct need.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier.

As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

You've got to find the force inside you.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.