Die, but do not retreat.
When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
Do you remember the tsar? Well, Im like a tsar.
We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don’t indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
Man is what he believes.
The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.
