Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital – the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
The fans gave us the wings that allowed us to be where we are. So we’re always thankful, and we know we’re here thanks to our fans.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
If I meet Putin, I’ll say to him: ‘So you’ve finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?’
All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
The cars we drive say a lot about us.
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.
I can’t imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.
The truth is that we don’t need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what’s better than being roundly liked is being fully known – an impossibility both professionally and personally if you’re so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
As humans, we’re going to make mistakes. It’s what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
The Lord gave us two ends – one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
