One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

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.

You can't have the rainbow without the storm.

The problem of “Command-Control is that you can control people’s behavior, but not their mind.

We cannot live without our lives

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

Make today the BEST day of your life, because there is no good reason not to.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

The hard part is what separates good from great.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.