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

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.