The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.