Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.
Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives.
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.