If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

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.

A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.

I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .