It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

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.

No exceptions to exceptions!

Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Don't torture yourself... that's my job

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.