Life without love is death.
Life is only where there is love. When you attain self-control and learn to control your passions, you will forget despair.
Love and truth are the two sides of the coin.
Love never asks, it always gives. Love suffers without regretting it and without seeking revenge.
The world is big enough to satisfy the needs of any man, but it is too small to satisfy human greed.
Prayer is a key to tomorrow and a lock to yesterday.
If I didn't have a sense of humor, I would have ended my days long ago.
There is no righteousness in him who cannot control his tongue.
A "no" spoken with deep conviction is better than a "yes" spoken just for fun or, worse, to avoid trouble.
The right to criticize people in the most severe way belongs to the one who has convinced them of his love, of the integrity of his opinions, the one who is sure that he will not be upset if people do not accept his ideas and do not take them in mind In other words, a critic needs the gift of clear perception of the world and boundless tolerance.
Freedom has no value unless it includes the freedom to make mistakes.
Where there is no will, there is no love.
The value of an ideal lies in the fact that it recedes as we approach it.
I firmly believe that the foundation of the world is love.
Architecture is also a chronicle of the world: it speaks even when songs and legends are already silent.
To be in the world and not mark one's own existence with anything - that's what seems terrible to me.
In every word is an abyss, every word is boundless...
In the literary world there is no death, and the dead meddle in our affairs and act with us, just as the living do.
There is hardly any greater pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
Even if you happen to get angry at someone, get angry at yourself at the same time, at least because you got angry at someone else.
Art inevitably tends to the good, in a positive or negative way: either it shows us the beauty of all the best qualities of a man, or it laughs at the ugliness and all the evils of a man. If you show all the rubbish that exists in man, and show it in such a way that every spectator will be utterly disgusted by it, I ask: is not this to the praise of the beautiful? I ask: is this not to the praise of the good?
However stupid the words of a fool may be, they can sometimes be enough to trouble the intelligent man.
What pain does not go away with time? Which passion will survive the unequal battle with time?
He who is really like a fist, that one will not break in the palm.
Youth is happy because it has a future.
Misfortune softens a man; his nature becomes more sensitive and receptive to the understanding of subjects beyond human knowledge in ordinary everyday situations.
There is no word that is so vast, so lively, so gushing from the very heart, bubbling and churning, as the precisely spoken Russian word.
You must be honest with your words.
First of all, take care of yourself, and then of others: first, become purer in your soul, and only then strive to make others also purer.
Poets do not appear from across seas and countries, but from among their own people. These are lights born of the people, the messengers of the progress of its powers.