Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

We're asleep until we love.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'