Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

Your sorrow will become smaller, like a star in the daylight that you can't even see. It's there, shining, but there is also a vast expanse of blue sky.

There is nothing I can do that won’t bring me back to you.

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

I believe that bringing a life into this world is the single most important thing a person can undertake, and it can also be the most challenging. I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that.

None but the brave can live with the fair.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.