My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it.

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.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.

Hope is joy.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.

When you see them be successful, however small, you say to yourself, wow. And everything becomes possible. Never denigrate, to say we will not succeed.