In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.