Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

I ran out of strong.

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

Money can't buy no blessins.

Good medicine always tastes bad.

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!

People--stupid when they lived

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?