... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

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 understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent

Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.

There was no miracle that night.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.

A religious person is a desireless person.

You drool when you sleep.

We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.