Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.