In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.