The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'

Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

I will risk everything to avoid being bored.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.