As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.