The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

I realized that making music can help me to convey my feelings, and if it can relieve me, maybe it can help someone else?

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a #‎ controlfreak , it's hard.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.