A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

[Fedor] Arlovski proved himself against Ben Rothwell. As far as a power puncher in the mold of a Mike Tyson-style power puncher, you're not going to find anyone tougher than Fedor.

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.