To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

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.

Generosity is the heart of humanity.

Nothing but trees.

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself, is that what love is?

No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.

Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.