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

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

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.