“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

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.