“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.”

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Love those you hate you.

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

God spoke to me.” Don’t let the voice of the darkness, tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don’t let him tell you, you don’t matter. God spoke to you.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.

It doesn’t matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.

It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

I’ll see your darkness and love you anyway.

If you are afraid of darkness, you are afraid of your own soul.

I never liked sleeping in the dark. I have, like, twinkle stars around my bed, so it’s not so bad.

Pain is as dark as it is deep. But just like anything that receives enough light, it too will fade over time and become something, a little less ominous, and a little more hopeful.