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.

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 one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt