“We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.”

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

I’ve come from nowhere, and I’m not shy to go back.

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

Why do we know but act like we don’t?

When people start dancing, they dance like they don’t know they are doing it.

Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.

I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.