Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

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?

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.