Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

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.

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

Nothing lasts forever on this earth. But whatever's good comes back every once in a while if you let it.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should.