"There is no object on earth which..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.”

“Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.”

“An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.”

“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.”

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”

“Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.”

“Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”

“The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.”