This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

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.

Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

The workshop of character is everyday life.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.