I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

there is a truth in everyone that lies deep within

If good men pretend to be villains, how is anybody supposed to know the difference between them?

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.