Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.