The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.