When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.