You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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 hope all you wish for comes to you, And you become who you're hoping to be.I know you will prosper in all you do, So promise you'll remember me.

No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.

How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

Laughter has no foreign accent.

When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater