Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.