I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.