Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.