Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

Why eye for an eye, when we can have smile for a smile ?

God expects from man a responsible attitude towards his given task

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies

I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.