We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!

One cannot declare that only his faith is correct and all other faiths are not. God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.