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.

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.

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

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

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I think you’re amazing,’ someone says to someone else, but it doesn’t matter who, because they’re all amazing really. People are amazing.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.

The thing that makes countries want to pursue some kind of nuclear deterrent is precisely the fact that they feel threatened.

I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.

The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.