In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.