We must discover security within ourselves.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.