Judging people based on what others say about them won't give us the opportunity to know them better.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it but because I see everything by it.

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.

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.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

Our real journey in life is interior.