Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHappiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWe hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAfter all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn