Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"A people that forgets how to weep has forgotten how to pray."

"We must learn to see the sacred in the ordinary before it is too late."

"The adventure of the spirit is the only adventure that truly matters."

"Despair is a luxury that those who love cannot afford."

"The measure of a person is not what they achieve but what they endure."

"In the war between comfort and truth, many choose comfort and call it wisdom."

"The family is the fortress against the storms of history."

"To understand evil, one must first understand despair."

"The greatest power is the power to affect the human heart through words."

"We are all responsible for the darkness that surrounds us unless we kindle light."

"The silence of the witness is the applause that emboldens the perpetrator."

"Education that does not elevate the soul corrupts the mind."

"The future belongs to those who remember the past with clarity and honesty."

"We learn not from our successes but from our failures and how we transcend them."

"The human soul craves meaning more desperately than it craves comfort."

"Kindness in a cruel world is the rarest and most revolutionary act."

"The peace that passes understanding is found only through acceptance of suffering."

"We must guard against the seduction of false hope as fiercely as we resist despair."

"The writer is the witness whose testimony shapes the conscience of the age."

"We know them not only by what they did, but by the intensity of their conviction."

"The line separating good and evil passes not between states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart."

"Talent is a great gift, but the ability to use it wisely is greater still."

"How we wish we could collapse time and fold the past so that we could see the end."

"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: What stands if I do not?"

"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."

"We are dying without noticing it, if we lose the ability to be astonished at our own existence."

"Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig."

"If we do not know our own history, we are condemned to live it again."

"Endless patience is the greatest virtue of those who build a new world."

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."