This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

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.

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.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.