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

Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.