Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Is there anything more frightening than people?

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

When you step up to success, use hard work and excellence as your rocket for winning and achievement.

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.

Whatever you do, do something positive.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

A Photographer is limited to some types of Photography. An Artist is able to do any types of photography. It's just a matter of choice and feelings.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.