The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.