If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.