We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

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.

The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A Genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.