Dear Lord, " she prayed, "please help me to handle all the work You've set before me. I can only do this with You at my side. Amen.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.

You can either wonder or worry

Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.

Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.