One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

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.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

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