"I don't want to be compared to anyone. I want to make my own history."

Institutions matter more than we sometimes acknowledge.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

In Russia, severity of laws is compensated for by their non-enforcement.

他们对你的所作所为是错的，但你并非无辜。你剥夺了他知晓真相的权利。

生命中最要紧的事即是彼此。