The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.

The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life.

Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience, too.

A life laid down cannot be reclaimed, nor can a ruined conscience.