"When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy."

"As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'"

"War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come."

"I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?"

"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."

"First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle."

"Light is the symbol of truth."

"I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves."