We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

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 I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

I never thought I would go into the dance charts.