The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

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.

Be passionate about your dreams and never give sleep to your eyes until your good becomes better and your better becomes the best.

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

There are moments in life when we need to trust blindly in intuition

Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.