Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.
Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.
In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.