The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.