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

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

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

We didn't love freedom enough.

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.

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.

Still, everybody wants to eat.