All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

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.

And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.