Brevity - the sister of talent.

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

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.