In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

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.

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

To advise is not to compel.

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.