Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.

The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

Our prison in Georgia is a very different place from this prison here in Berlin. The conditions there are inhuman.

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

Only those who ignore d sea waves&tides to fish in deep waters can have abundance of fishes to feed their generation.

Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.

Once you chose the power of love, nothing is impossible.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

For me, being Ryan Lochte is fun.