Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.
If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!
In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.
I try to be classic without being mumsy.
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for the Motherland and patriotism. Patriotism in the best sense of that word. Incidentally, I think that to a certain extent, to a significant extent, this is also attributable to the American people.
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.