God is the same everywhere.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Words speak to the mind through the ears

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.

I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.