I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.