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

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.

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.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.

We warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how.

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

What is aught but as 'tis valued?