The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

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.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

A peaceful mind generates power.

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.