There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Separate yourself from the lies and illusions which are not you.

I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. (...) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.

After all, nobody could get out from the dangerous place, something was going bad and I could be felt... (Hidden 2015)

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Yeah, to bring families together I need to go away.