Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

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.

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Burnout…occurs because we’re trying to solve the same problem over and over.

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

We all understand that America feels so angry, they want to get somebody, but you can't just have lots of planes and guns and ships and make everybody do your bidding.

Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

One does not always know how to express the sorrow of the soul. One does not always know how to silence the joy of the heart.