Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.