I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.

Lord, save Russia and bring her peace.

There is no justice among men.

I do not rule Russia. 10,000 clerks do.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

I am just a plain, common man.

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

The dark-haired clothes horse, who generally meant well, was a dufus, but he was family

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.

It can be done, but you have to make it happen.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

You DO know what to do.

Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.