Quote of the Day (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, on Truth and Our Mistakes)

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."— Russian novelist and Nobel Literature laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), “Peace and Violence" (letter nominating Andrei Sakharov for the Nobel Peace Prize), in “Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn” (op-ed article in The New York Times), Sept. 15, 1973