"As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

"A brave man dies but once, a coward many times."

"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union."

"My father was often angry when I was most like him."

"I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong."