When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

The big contracts go to the girls who are healthy - they need to have a sparkle in their eyes and you can't fake that if you're unhealthy.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

A person is neither right or wrong-- there is only a right attitude and a right interaction.

Home isn't these four walls. Home is wherever we are together.

I'm figuring it out as I go, I'm good at that.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

There's no way that you can stop nature.

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.