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.

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?

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!

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Every time he tries to fly high, but his memories always hold his broken wings.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are.

Donald Trump proved that he understood America in the way that those who say they're informing America simply did not.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.