The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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.

Dare to deliver what’s in your heart.

To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.