Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.