If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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.

Failure is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit.

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

Tomorrow is a new day if you begin it today.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.