Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

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.

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.

I wish they would take me as I am.

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?