The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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