We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily.