When reason fails, the devil helps!

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.