I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.