I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.

Don't be so busy making a living that you forget to enjoy your Life. Today, make a commitment to Enjoy Life.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

God's first, then family, then whatever else you love.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.