I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
The German chancellor said that our president lives in a different world. I believe he lives in a very real world.
In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory.
Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.
It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.
In Putin's world, and in mine, it is inconceivable that women be harassed and raped in public.
For the next decades, Europe will not be a model that is attractive to Russia.
That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.