You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

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.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...

When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.