When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

Respect all men but fear none.

P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.