Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.