Leo Tolstoy

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

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

God is the same everywhere.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness…

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

When you do something that you really think is stupid, bad decision, irresponsibleand it just happens and you suffer it then that’s penalty. But if you learn from it it becomes tuition.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Life is managed; it is not cured.

The thing is, she’s got heart, a colossal, mesmerizing one. She gives me a green flash love, the type you are rarely lucky enough to see but when you do, your entire sky is changed forever.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs – that is, nothing.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Insight emerges out of silence.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.