The less you speak, the more you will hear.

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

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.