We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
Religion itself cannot but be dynamic. In order to combat modern materialistic mores, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.
Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work – to work and to the struggle.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.