“Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.”

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.

I am convinced that the norm in Russia should become a family with three children.

I’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.