It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?