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

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.