Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.
I feel kind of depressed today. . . Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that. . . Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!
Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.
If you can't beat 'em, cooperate 'em to death!
In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs -- he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but had never tasted any omlette.
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.