That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

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.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop.

Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide.

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.