Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.