“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.

The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.

What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.