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

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.

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.

It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!

It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price.Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature and nature alone.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Choose a challenge instead of competence

I wear high heels for long legs.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

I don't take a scene or word for granted.