Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment