The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

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.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.