I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.
It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.
A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.
Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.
I'm convinced that a person in my position must provide a positive example to people.
It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.
It's better not to argue with women.
Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.
How you think about your spouse greatly impacts how you treat your spouse.