An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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.

Success is not the absence of failure it's the persistence through failure.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.