My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.
The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
We want to prevent further destabilization in the world. And we want the status of being a great power: We unfortunately cannot relinquish that. In the last 300 years, this status has become a part of our genetic makeup. We want to be the heart of greater Eurasia, a region of peace and cooperation. The subcontinent of Europe will also belong to this Eurasia.