Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

There's a way out of every situation.

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.