Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

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

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.

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

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.