You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.

Photography is my only language.

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.

NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.

Fantastic shadows of birds

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.