If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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.

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.