Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

Don't put down a deposit on worry.

The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.