There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

A thought, once uttered, is untrue

Like first love, the heart of Russia will not forget you.

Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world.

The mind is the most powerful sense.

Her family was counting on her—to be responsible, to get good grades, to follow the rules, to be the good example. And more important, she expected those things of herself.

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

If you think one thing is sacred but you cannot stand the other, if you love the Creator but hate the creation, that is vulgarity.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.