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

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.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

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

I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.

Success comes from closing the gap between who you are today and your ultimate potential.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.