...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God.