All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

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.

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.

You shouldn't be in here!

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

We cannot create jobs without company owners, the state cannot create jobs by decree.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Ask me a question. Don't say talk about it, ask me a question. I'm not going to talk about it if it isn't a question.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.