“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.”

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Love those you hate you.

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.