We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

You have to stop to change direction.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

To be blessed is to live in gratitude, so that God can fulfill you forever.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.