People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.