I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

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.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

Stay away to abuse and misemploy knowledge, and neutrality with jealousy since it reflects the lack of sense.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

From out of pain, beauty.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

You know what I hate, man? Guys that you know haven't seen the film: they just quote a bunch of statistical bullshit.

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.