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.

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

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.

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.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.