You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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.

Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives.

Generous people are likely to receive more respect from their peers.

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means.

...there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.

I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.