To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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