...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky