I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
Education is an asset no man can take away.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.
I wouldn't place much stock in numbers. I don't believe that they reflect Putin's true popularity. Just think about how the pollsters proceed. They call people and they ask them questions on the street. In today's Russia, it takes a lot of courage to tell a stranger something critical about the head of the Kremlin. And yet more than 20 percent do so nonetheless.