Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

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...

A hard life improves the vision.