Everything seems stupid when it fails.

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.