I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

I’d prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn’t start singing.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

The day internet stops functioning forever

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Hip-hop is a vehicle.