...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

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

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.