And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.