Work is what horses die of

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

A human being is all hope and impatience.