I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.