It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

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.

It’s not what happens, it’s what you do that makes the difference to how things turn out. Change your perspective in the way that serves you best.

You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.

Let the other person save face.

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glorify him and bring him joy.