Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

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

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

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

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Boris Yeltsin's period was characterized by a no less irresponsible attitude to people's lives, but in other ways. In his haste to have private rather than state ownership as quickly as possible, Yeltsin started a mass, multi-billion-dollar fire sale of the national patrimony. Wanting to gain the support of regional leaders, Yeltsin called directly for separatism and passed laws that encouraged and empowered the collapse of the Russian state. This deprived Russia of its historical role for which it had worked so hard, and lowered its standing in the international community.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.