If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required.

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

We are all children until our fathers die.

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

A conductor should guide rather than command.

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

They that touch pitch will be defiled.