My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.