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

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.

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.

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.

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.

After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.

God’s grace does not require a condition to abound. However to obtain the promises of his blessings, you have to strive for it, fight for it, work hard for it and insist upon it.

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

What does it say, 'I beat Meryl.'

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.