People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Boys and girls can be friends. It's not weird. They're a person and they can be your best friend in the whole world.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

Live and let live. I want to be happy and be loved...that's all.

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.