Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

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.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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