“Trust, but verify.”

“We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession?”

“Things don't just happen, things are made to happen.”

“To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.”

“The greatest thing about mornings is: you're able to try again. Fail today, succeed tomorrow.”

“I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained.""Yeah?" he said. "I was young once too.”

“Fortune and fame," she said, "always on the horizon. And always some pitfall between you and it.""An excellent summation," I said, "of my life in particular and of the world in general.”