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

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.