Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.