One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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.

Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. If you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.