Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable to the political classes.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.