Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

What a force is laughter.

We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.