When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.