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

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

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

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.