To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Big visions are realized through small steps.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

Dance well with a woman, and she's halfway yours.

If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.