Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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.

Serving humanity is not beneath spiritual pursuit

The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.

I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something.