A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

I have a trend of my own.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

My body gets weak without truth.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

To be rich is not the end but only a change of worries.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

You can game the social media in the short run, but not for long.

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.