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.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.