The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}