Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

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