Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been born yet about what we think about right now.

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.

A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater, wants to spice my chili, I think I'll let her.

What's the point in fashion if nobody can wear it?