William Ewart Gladstone

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

I think our Russian Football Union must play an active part in this… and develop a new generation of sportsmen and soccer players.

Public officials are all right if they stay in their proper sphere and perform their proper functions but when they get greedy for wider scope and more power and money they lose their value and become parasites.

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

It is time to show the whole world that America is back – bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn’t happen by laws of nature. And it doesn’t happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success – in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

With regards to the infrastructure, these 11 stadiums. Of course, we spent a lot of money on this and it is imperative that all of this infrastructure, I completely agree, it must work and above all work toward the development of sport on a large scale.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

The understanding that a third world war could be the end of civilization should restrain us from taking extreme steps on the international arena that are highly dangerous for modern civilization.

It is because Russia is seen as a threat, because Russia is seen as becoming a competitor. I believe this approach is mistaken.