A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

Ever day someone somewhere in the world is quoting me.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.