It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.