Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

The Russian soul is a dark place.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

How can one deceive these dear little birds, when they look at one so sweetly and confidingly? I call them birds because there is nothing in the world better than birds!

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

Composition and choreography were always very important to me and I choreographed for my earliest training.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.