Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

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.

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.

Doesn't need help of friends to climb to the peak, the need to have lofty aspirations.

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.