Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

When mom died, my old roommate, Jimmy, said that in an alternate dimension, an alternate me might have a worse life.Now that's comforting, said Murphy.

Habits change into character.

For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.