A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

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

Every new time will give its law.

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

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