As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. . . do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.

Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved faster than my brain.

My god is narrative filmmaking.

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Being on the stage, you've got to be ready for anything.

We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

Systems die; instincts remain.