Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.