When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age

Long are the lives of elves' he said.Short are the tempers of dwarfs, 'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.