... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express

Today's future is Tomorrow's past

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.