Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!

I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.

Why aren't I like other boys?

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

O sin what hast thou done to this fair earth!

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.