Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

History is more interesting than politics.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Attitude shapes reality.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

What times! What manners!