And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

We are a strong democratic country.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

Perhaps there are some things we can't let go of, but simply accept as over.

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?

Don't go back over your life with a red pen.

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.