To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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.

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

In order to be a deliverer you need to make a decision to be baptized into the nation

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.