Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

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

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.

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

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.

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

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.