The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it.

You Have the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams!

I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.