It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

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.

Just thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve managed to wind up covered in blood, ” I said. “It’s like a new trend. A blood-free trend.

The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.