Which of us can control his feelings?

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.

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Never do your enemy a minor injury.

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.