So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.