It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

Midnight, and the kitties are sleeping.

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.

I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?