I cannot do politics under someone else's control.

Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

I think women make the same mistake with me all the time. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?

Let no act be done without purpose.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.