As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow ye diet.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

I'm not mean, just aggressive.