If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing

I would like to believe that logic is questioning your reasoning to reach a conclusion.

I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

You will understand why when you look back, the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.