In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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.

Upnext" is your success... but before that, remember "up there" is your God who requires from you to be "upright" to fulfill your destiny! Be "up" and keep going!

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

There's always a faster gun.

If you are too busy to exercise, you are too busy.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

A symphony is no joke.

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.