It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.