Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

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.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.

For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!

When anything goes, everything goes.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.