If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Investors have very short memories

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

Empty words and long praises do not impress God. Show Him your faith by your deeds

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it

Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.

If you're saving, you're succeeding

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

Wine is the divine juice of September.