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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Run to brilliance. Sprint to excellence. Soar to transcendence.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

Continued experiment with dog today.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.