Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High. But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objecti...
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience, too. A life laid down cannot be reclaimed, nor can a r...
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a...
Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.
...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
