We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.

too much alcohol hampers people's ability to parent. That's why I've chosen to remain childless.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

Imagination grows by exercise.