Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

We will die, but art will remain.

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

Education doesn't make you smarter.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Vladimir Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible - a slow and gradual restoration. These efforts were not noticed, nor appreciated, immediately. In any case, one is hard pressed to find examples in history when steps by one country to restore its strength were met favorably by other governments.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!