God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

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

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

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

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.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Be friendly like a flower

Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.

I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

Guys are OK... shake their hand... Women are special. You can hug 'em.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.