Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.