An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

It's better not to argue with women.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.

it’s a lifetime process to figure out how to fill your soul.

I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.