I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

Problems are not the problem: coping is the problem.

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with that is what makes the difference.

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.

Life is not what it's supposed to be.It's what it is.The way you cope with it is what makes the difference

Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.

I am me and I am okay.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

My English is very bad.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous.

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.