Dasha Zhukova

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

“You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It’s a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

There is no mistake in nature.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.