No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

We carry on not by letting go of the worries that burden us

I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.