I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

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

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?