You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies

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?

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.