Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?

Love is the most important thing a person can knowIf you should win love once, you'll know it is harder than death to let go.

Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.

All stories are the sin of their weaver.

Proceed with caution when you befriend a writer, for if you fall out of their good graces they have the delightful capability of doing any number of dastardly things to you upon the written page.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

If America can have a great relationship with Russia and with China and with all countries, I'm all for that. That would be a tremendous asset.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.

Empathy comes from being empathized with.

We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.