Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.