How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.