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

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

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

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?