That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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.

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy.

Success is never a place but a perspective.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.