What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.

Why, it would be such fun, ' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.

Horas non numero nisi serenas, ' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.

Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.