To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

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.

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.

I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.

My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.