What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.