It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.