The world will be saved by beauty.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.