Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

Socialism with a human face.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.

You know that I know that I know that you know that I know my path.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness