It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

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.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.