Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

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.

You are what you think. Before you succeed physically, it had been done mentally. The hometown of both victory and defeat is the mind of a person.

There is no love without kindness, there is no kindness without love.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

I never promised you a rose garden.