MEDVIEDENKO Why do you always wear mourning? MASHA I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

"“Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain”"

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.” 

“Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” 

You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right

Have no fear of perfection; you’ll never reach it. 

You’ll never make me believe women were made to walk on stilts. 

“Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”

You are better off having a friend than to be all alone. If you fall, your friend can help you up. But if you fall without having a friend nearby, you’re really in trouble. 

It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

First you learn humility, then you experience glory.

"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

"The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful." 

"When you make a choice and say, 'Come hell or high water, I am going to be this,' then you should not be surprised when you are that. It should not be something that is intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that ... when that moment comes, of course it is here because it has been here the whole time, because it has been [in your mind] the whole time."

It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.

Trust me, setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache…

The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real.

Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change.

I realized that intimidation didn’t really exist if you’re in the right frame of mind.

Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.