“Write only of what is important and eternal.”

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.