Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.