If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

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.

[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe