One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

O Lord let me not live to be useless!

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

There's a dark side to everything.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.