Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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.

Live as if life is for loving and giving.

You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.

Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill...

The redemption of a country depends on the position of the church

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.