For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

A hard life improves the vision.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.