It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

If it [a country] looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right?

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.

Very little is needed to make a happy life

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.

If I cannot be useful to my country, I'll try to be useful to my leader and to all the people around me.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on.