One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless.

Heavenly Father, may your will be done in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

I had so much fire in me and so many plans.

We're gonna have a much better health care plan at much less money.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.