The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.