If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But 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?

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

If it goes well with you, then all is well.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.