Who will dare say he has defined art?

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 am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Don't compromise your principles.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.