It is human nature that rules the world not governments and regimes.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

History is a stern judge.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Rainbows paint the sky with different colors of love, sadness, and joy.

One who cannot dance must not blame the song.

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.