The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.

In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.

I am of the opinion that we shouldn't turn away from Europe. We have to find ways to revitalize our relations.

For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.

In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.

American politicians have openly said that the sanctions are aimed at bringing about regime change in Russia. That's aggressive enough.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

Being a woman is interesting, but it shouldn’t stop you from being a person.

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

This is a software-powered world.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.