When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

History is a stern judge.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

all large cities are alike at night.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Leave no stone untamed.

Vicodin and vodka the breakfast of champion's.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.