He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.