I am happy to announce that we have reached an agreement on the question of transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

The only limit on your dreams is your imagination.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.