Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

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

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.