I'm in mourning for my life.

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.

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?

Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

I think that Mormonism as a whole has been misunderstood. So, I think, it's neat that people just get to learn a little bit more about what our faith is about and what we believe in.

There is always a reason to be grateful.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.