I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.