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

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

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

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.