"From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse."

"I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye."

"The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence"

"Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice."

"Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound."

"If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible."

"Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?"

"To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be."

"They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?"

"Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves."

"Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life."

"I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!"

"God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face."

"If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love"

"Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness."

"Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams."

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

"The world will be saved by beauty."

"A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."

"The most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…"

"May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"

"Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything."

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others."

"I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living."

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering..."

"Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man."

"One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us."

"I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus..."

"She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age."

"A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals."

"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."

"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."

"The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God."

"At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts."

"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you."

"A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression."

"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once."

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."

"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions."

"If there is no God, everything is permitted."

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"Realists do not fear the results of their study."

"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it."

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."