We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment with what you want in your future.

If you are upset or nervous, that is proof you lack something. Do not be sad or gloomy - foster virtue, feel compassion, and you can save even devils.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.