When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

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

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.