The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of...

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And...

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become...

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Every life is precious.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves...