My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage$$$ you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country.

Inability$$$ human incapacity$$$ is the only boundary to an art.