Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.