Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.

A virtue which is divine is humility.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.