people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Experience is a thorough teacher.

The breath of liberty is sweet.

Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.

When you really know someone, you can't hate him.

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.