I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

It's better not to argue with women.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.

It was a sweet smile, but it hid menace, like the kind dentists gave.

If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations, " Solomon said, looking up at the stars.

Crazy. It was the same word María and Tía Rosa flung at Grandpa Lázaro. The same word anyone said when they didn't understand something. "Crazy" was a way to shut people up, disregard them entirely.

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

I am Evanescence. I am the only original member. I have basically hired the band. Evanescence has become me. It is mine and it's exactly how I want it to be.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.