Cracks make caves collapse.

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.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected