How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

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

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.