But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

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.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States.

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.

It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.

The fact is that there is nothing wrong with most of us that a good, clean change of attitude and some new skills wouldn't fix.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.