Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

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.

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.