In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.