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

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.

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 cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Touching people is very rewarding to me.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

There’s nothing like a good ol’ film light in a fogged up studio.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing