Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty." Ned Low

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s” and the ‘Who’s' of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. "

To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Be grateful for luck.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

You might be a redneck if directions to your house include turn off the paved road.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.