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

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.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.