He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

[James Mattis] is a student of history. He's a strategic thinker.

Be rather bountiful, than expensive.