If you ever have need of my life, come and take 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.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

Compose first, worry later.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.