Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

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.

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.

When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

Flowers are nice, but love is better.

Bigger budget features are the juice. Delicious juice you want to spill all over yourself.

This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?