Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.

We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.

It can't rain all the time.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

The value of consistent prayer is not that [God] will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.

From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest All you have gathered. . .

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.