I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.