There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.