Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. - A

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things

A twelve year old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken salad sandwich, how do you think I am?

It’s a matter of dignity, ” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.

When all else fails, throw a party!

The team is the star, never an individual player.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.