Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
“I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.”
“Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.”