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.

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.

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

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.

God is the Maker of heaven and earth.

Why not?

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

Kids are the biggest brand ambassadors of Swachh Bharat initiative.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering.

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.