All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly