What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

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.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

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!

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

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

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Sometimes crisis triggers the genius within

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry, " said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves

My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, "Boy, you're an actor." I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.

I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.