Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

History is more interesting than politics.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.