True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.

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.

In the great green room, there was a telephoneAnd a red balloonAnd a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...

May you find strength to survive life.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.