The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

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.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Commit no act that is contrary to love.