Vladimir Putin

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

I myself know some people who are gay. We’re on friendly terms. I’m not prejudiced in any way.

[on Trump] He is a very bright person, talented without any doubt.

Libya is divided into tribes and clans.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don’t care about a person’s sexual orientation.

I hope that things will not come to provocations (during the soccer World Cup). If this happens I think it would have very serious consequences for the Ukrainian government in general.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

In order to fulfill yourself, you have to forget yourself. In order to find yourself, you have to lose yourself.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

The Zen expression Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.