He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?

Firstly, the use of our armed forces in the battlefield is a unique experience, a unique tool by which to improve our armed forces. No amount of military exercise could compare with the use of force in combat conditions.

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need; if I die by four O’clock.

You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Let your life be your music and let your music be your life.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

I don’t know where Jazz is going. Maybe it’s going to hell. You can’t make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.