Leo Tolstoy

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

You don’t have to love everything a person does to love that person.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy-that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there’s no altering that.

I don’t understand how in my parents’ age, it was ’til death do us part, and in mine it’s ’til cheating do us part, ’til lying do us part, ’til chemistry do us part, ’til disagreements do us part, ’til boredom do us part, ’til cowardice do us part. I just want what my parents have, that part.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don’t believe in it, and I never have. I’ve never changed. I’ve never changed my hair. I’ve never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I’ve always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

The only other person who has a clue about what this is, the good, the bad, is your partner.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

I never felt I was too protective. I felt I was functioning as a dam against the river of sh*t that comes pouring down on artists, and it was a job that I took very seriously.