But what can you say in a letter?

A human being is all hope and impatience.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.