One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.