“A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.”

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

It’s okay to doubt yourself, it’s okay to feel down; just never give up.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

I don’t know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel’s Bolero. Too bad – this is how I hear war.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.