Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it