In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Forgiveness is the best tonic for heart.

When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.