The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates 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.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

Whilst Adam slept Eve from his side arose Strange his first sleep would be his last repose.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I'm not sure how reliable he is.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.