Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.