Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Only entropy comes easy.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.