One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

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.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.