Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Don't be afraid, " Elisha answered, "We have more on our side than they have on theirs." (2 Kings 6:15 GNT)

She had always been comforted by confectionery

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

Successful films are very dangerous things.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.