Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

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.

If you can simply drop yourself from the moment, you can still experience life and with more clarity.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Challenge doesn't come to small people. Challenge comes to great people.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.