I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

Now I lay facedown on the bed, sobbing for the womanwho once slept here not knowing that someday one of herworst fears would come true

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.

Don’t settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!

Every time you think a thought it 'registers', and comes back to you according to the vibrations and wave lengths sent out from your mind.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.