We have ourselves to save.

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.