I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Investors have very short memories

How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

The polynomial xn−1 is a force of nature.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.

Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things.

Unto everyone that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.