“Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.”

Every new time will give its law.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man – Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?

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’.

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.