The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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.

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.

Only when however we are becomes good enoughDo we ever become really freeTo be our best...

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.