Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.