If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

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

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

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.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.