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

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.