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!

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.

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

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?

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.

Not sorry, not calling, not cryingAll will pass like smoke of white apple treesSeized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.

What your soul needs is a check up.

Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.