And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Ad

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.

There is a magic in distance. Look back at the golden lamp-lit rooms of your home from the road of your life, and it all for a moment is exactly how you hoped it would be: warm, peaceful, safe.

I will not live the rest of my life in regret.

​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow.

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.