If it goes well with you, then all is well.

Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.