You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!