He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

Stay strong in strength of spirituality.

You truly do have the power to reach your goals.

Years wrinkle the face but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

A bond as important as that of a husband and wife, is the bond between siblings.

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

God is Mind, and God is infinite; hence all is Mind.

Save water. Shower with your girlfriend.

Without publicity there is no prosperity.