Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that's science.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

To advise is not to compel.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.