Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.