I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.