A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

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.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.