One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

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.

Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.