To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of dreams, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.

Trust acquired through challenged skepticism is infinitely more solid and lasting than passive acceptance.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Dark clouds outside are no match to the bright smiles of volunteers at the GK relief center. Hope shines brightest in darkness. Miracles of solidarity can help a nation walk on water.