If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

the moon is just another kind of clock

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.

Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.