It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U. S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
Love rarely overtakes; it mostly comes to meet us.
People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one
I respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.
I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.