Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

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.

I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.

Never say never or it becomes a vice, and there you have it, you just did it twice.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

Immortality doesn't fit with death, as mortal doesn't fit with eternity.

I'm a little monster. Cuddling is my special attack. #cuddlemonster

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

I think aerials is designed for China and I'm happy to be the one to make this a reality.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?