The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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.

A hard life improves the vision.