All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

The only regret I have is that I couldn't teach you a lesson in humanity and humility. A mother should not depend on his son and that's the one mistake I committed.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.

When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity