Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!

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.

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!

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

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

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

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

God bless all mankind with faith, hope, love, joy and peace.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja?

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.