If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.
The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
I don't believe in atheists.