Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.