Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

History is a stern judge.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

all large cities are alike at night.

I mean, you want the truth as you wanna hear it? I can't do that. You couldn't afford me.

If Shane had avoided her for years because of a kiss, he might leave the country over a blow and hand job.

You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

No one who is in business for profit can foist his or her beliefs on a workforce that includes many people who do not share those beliefs.

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.