There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.