If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

A hard life improves the vision.