In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.