All we can do is try not to fall.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

May the grace of faith, keep you going in the forward motion to reach the ultimate goal.

You will not pass!” Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Without hope we fail to exist.

When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

You've got to be realistic.