I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

The moment you are more interested and obsessed to others you begin to loose your Self . It's so insane that you again seek others to help find self.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.