Envy is an insult to oneself.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.