"You ask me what's happened in my life, why and how I did this and that. And I think and tell, but it's never true sto…"

"The minute plane set down, the minute I stepped again on Latvian ground, I realized this was never my home. My heart …"

"Children being left, it's not always like books of Charles Dickens. When you lose your parents in childhood, it's a f…"

"You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game,…"

"The more injuries you get, the smarter you get."

"He’d be a ruin by now, both physically and mentally. Physically because of the bottle. . . . Mentally because of that…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"I can live as the boys live, and if God wishes the work to succeed, He will surely provide the means."

"In looking after the interests of the child it is necessary to cultivate the heart. You must eradicate the vices of y…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."