Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.

I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.

Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.