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

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that’s all there is to it.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt.

To an old man any place that’s warm is homeland.

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.

A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something.

To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man’s entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens you will end up disappointed.

Her words are effortless in terms of their meaning and how she inhabits them.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? My art gives meaning to my life.