I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

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.

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

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

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.

As God is my witness, he is broken in half!

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

Even the ears must dance.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.

I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.