When a friend askes, there is no to morrow. [When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow. ]
Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.
I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that. ” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.
In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.
When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented that, every day, you wake up going, "All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people," that's what makes it fun.