There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah can trust. He can contact these people without first waiting for a sign.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Intuition is beyond the scope of our mind, it is surprising, but it is the fact of life

Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Will speechless for once, a glass of water frozen halfway to his lips

I've fallen for one girl too many who's wanted some variation of who I am and only that. It eats you alive.

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care."

If there's a heaven, I would probably go. I've actually a very nice person.