No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with your own people - that is truly terrible.

A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.

We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family are different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away.

In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.