I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

I established my bank in 1988.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

No matter where you live, live with dignity.

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.