To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

A woman’s heart is not bought by the currency of a man’s emotion for her. A woman’s heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that.