Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy
Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.
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.
You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.
I believe in public services.
Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.