Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

May you find grace and strength to achieve all the good things your faith prompts you to do.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.