Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
I try to live life so that I can live with myself.
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.