A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

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

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

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.