For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.