Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.