Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

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