The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

You have to go head, even if no one goes with you.

With courage, confident and commitment, the dream is possible.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.