Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

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!

It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.