Life punishes those who come too late.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

The new European Soviet.

We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.