"Oh, if only I did nothing simply..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.”

“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.”

“And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!”

“It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.”

“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.”

“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”

“Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.”

“It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.”

“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”