... that there is a special Russian asset, which is the belief that Russia is the homeland of the deeper and sincerer emotions.

We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul-and that's resignation.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.