I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

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

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?