a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...