“If you don’t like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don’t like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!”

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

The best advice I’ve ever heard about anything is this: Don’t exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don’t exaggerate!

Don’t look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain’t any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

A leader without a vision is just a letter without a stamp; it can never reach his destination.

Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?

Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

In autumn, don’t go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

Not every ant which stays under the elephant’s foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away!

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.