Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.