It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

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