And faith and experience tell me one and the same thing: maintaining my existence on earth is not a difficult thing, but a fun thing, if we live simply and rationally.
Each generation sneers at outdated patterns and devoutly follows the new.
How many people there are who, reading a good book, opened a new era in their lives!
As if we could kill time without hurting eternity!
How could nature be so bright and wonderful if man's predestination were otherwise?
Books should be read as carefully and as slowly as they were written.
"Better times will come!" "Couldn't you specify the date?" one of the listeners was genuinely interested.
People become instruments of their instruments.
Dreams are the cornerstones of our character.
What good is a house if you don't have a good enough planet to build on?
We must read the best of literature, and not endlessly repeat its rudiments, thus spending our whole lives in a primary class.
We are often much lonelier among people than in the quiet of our rooms. When man thinks or works he is always alone with himself, wherever he is.
Find out where your roots are and don't worry about other worlds.
Real people serve the state through their conscience.
Let us not underestimate the importance of the fact: someday, the flower of truth will bloom on it.
Nothing smells so disgusting as corrupt godliness.
You must not be overly moral, because you risk falling prey to self-delusion. Your target must be above morality. You have to be not just simply good, but good for something.
With no one is it so pleasant to communicate as you do with loneliness.
Loneliness is not measured in the miles that separate man from his neighbor.
Experience is in the fingers and in the head. The heart is always a beginner.
As long as I am a friend to the seasons I cannot imagine that life could become a burden to me.
Why should I feel alone? Isn't our planet in the Milky Way?
Truth is always paradoxical.
Paradise can be defined as a place that people avoid.
The most I could do for my friend is to be his friend.
The tenderest plants make their way through the hardest soil, through the cracks of the rocks. So is kindness. What wedge, what hammer, what battering ram can be compared to the force of good, to that of a sincere person! Nothing compares to it.
First of all, read the best books, because then you will never be able to read them again.
Judge your health by how you enjoy the morning and the spring.
Where people are unjustly imprisoned, the true place for a righteous man is also in prison.
Effort gives birth to wisdom and purity; vanity gives rise to ignorance and lasciviousness.