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

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.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

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

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

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

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