Most Russians don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage in the store and lots of cheap vodka.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

Think before you speak, and don't say everything you think.

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

He who shoots first laughs last.

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone.