Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

The great way to live life is to love.

A blessed hope, a blessed life.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.