The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynHuman nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMy wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn