Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

'My country right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother drunk or sober.'

One crime has to be concealed by another.