Maxim Gorky

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book is only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”

“The madness of the brave is the wisdom of life.”

“A lie is the religion of slaves and masters.”

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully developed when they are strengthened by praise.”

“What is a hero? A hero is a man who creates life in defiance of death.”

“In the monotony of everyday existence, grief is a holiday.”

“When the imagination is continually engaged in analyzing the pain of others, it is rendered incapable of feeling its own.”

“Let us not search for the guilty ones only from without, let us search for them within ourselves.”

“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come.”

“Our salvation is in our work, in our hands, and in our heads.”

“A talented reader is as rare as a talented writer.”

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“Truth is the god of the free man.”

“An artist is a man who digests his own heart.”

“Beauty and wisdom are in simplicity.”

“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly.”

“Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.”