Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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.