Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Science cannot exist without faith. It is a remarkable thing that all scientists have faith."

"Time is the greatest healer, but also the greatest deceiver."

"Our entire twentieth century civilization is becoming one vast, impersonal machine."

"The world has weapons of mass destruction, but no weapons against mass stupidity."

"We too have become too accustomed to untruth and it has become our essence."

"Happiness is a mirage; only this moment is real."

"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought."

"I came to see that I had accepted an ideological position myself without examining it."

"We have been given the profound and perfect example of a completely perfect man."

"Freedom itself is a most fragile thing."

"Every man's burden is his own."

"Art is a person's gift to his people."

"The great Russian cultural tradition cannot be restored by the state."

"A man's wife is his dearest companion in the trials of life."

"In the end, evil always defeats itself."

"People who have nothing to do are the ones who write the most."

"There is no one on whom we can rely, other than ourselves."

"The entire struggle is about truth against the lie."

"All of us together can accomplish incredible things."

"We are not to take up arms against tyranny, but to witness against it."

"The task of literature is to distinguish the true from the false."

"Man is born to be happy, but he has constructed a world of suffering."

"The sick man must have a doctor, or he will die."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of truth or in the darkness of lies."

"Music is the silence between the notes."

"Patience is a virtue that allows us to see the true nature of things."

"In a moment of great doubt, one must find one's faith."

"Beauty can be found in the simplest things if we look for it."

"Grief is not the absence of hope, but the presence of love."

"The path of suffering is the path to enlightenment."