I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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.

Music is breath of life.

Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

Don’t depend on luck to solve problems.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.