The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

Let your memory be your travel bag.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.