What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

We often try to force the experience we want to have, instead of allowing the experience we were meant to have, and in doing this, we miss out on gaining any new insight or understanding.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices.

We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

I think Southampton will finish above teams that are well below them.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.