The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

I'm home'', he said against her skin, and she realized it was the truth.''I'm home, too''.

There is a Pirate in every one of us

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

A lot of us think we're invincible... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

People don't know how to talk about being depressed - that it's totally okay to feel sad.