... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

Music is love in search of a voice.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.