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.

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.

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.

This world belongs to our future generations, so we have to take utmost care of it.

Demons, werewolves, zombies--they're all supposed to be for entertainment purposes only.

The love of God pays no attention to my prejudices caused by my natural individuality.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form.