Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.

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

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....