I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.