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

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.