Svetlana Alliluyeva

The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.