In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

If you allow someone to control you, you surrender part of your power to them.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development.

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.

It's a Crime for the Slave to Love her Bonds.

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

An armed society is a free society.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.