it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.