Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

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.

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

I would eventually like to write and star in my own stuff. I think I have a good comedic sense, so I'd like to follow that road. I don't know what the future holds, but whatever I do, I'll commit.