Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.