On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

What a force is laughter.

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.