My Small Boat

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Instants If I could live again my life, In the next – I’ll try, – to make more mistakes, I won’t try to be so perfect, I’ll be more relaxed, I’ll be more full – than I am now, In fact, I’ll take fewer things seriously, I’ll be less hygenic, I’ll take more risks, I’ll […]

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

The biggest human temptation … is to settle for too little.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.

What did you bring that book that I don’t want to be read to out of about Down Under up for.

I begin […] with an almost inconceivable assertion: I was born at home. For the benefit of those of you who can’t imagine what the word “home” implies, or what a home could possibly have been like, I should explain that the idea of home is the idea of privacy. But again–what is privacy? You […]

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

In the world to come, I shall not be asked, “Why were you not Moses?” I shall be asked, “Why were you not Zusya?”