"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

“Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.”

“It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.”

“To have joy, one must share it.”

“Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.”

“In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.”

Source : "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.

“Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.”

“Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.”

“The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.”

Source : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.