You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday.

Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.

Why does the (U.S.) State Department decide who should get Sevastopol?...

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