There were rats in it, but Fyodor Pavlovich was not altogether angry with them:
Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
art is risk made visible
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.