There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.