What a delight it is to respect people!

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.

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!

I exist no more, every moment a new being lives inside me.

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.