originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

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

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.