You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.

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

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.