Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.