The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.

Only a changed person can live according to the law

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

I'm down with just the Backstreet Boys.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.