"This creature softened my heart of stone...." - Quote by Joseph Stalin

“It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.”

“Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.”

“Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.”

“Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.”

“And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.”

“I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]”

“O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!”