It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.