People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

In Russia there is no philosophy, but philosophize everything, even the small fry.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.