Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

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.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Our best pictures happen by grace.

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen

My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.