Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else.

In Russia you learn patience, " said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.

Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

if you'e going to do something, darling, then do it all the way.