The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.