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

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

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