I think happiness is love.
We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.
I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it’s inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don’t want to name any specific examples… but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies.
Export in technical equipment is growing, which shows that some structural changes are going on in the economy. Export of agricultural produce, at 20 billion last year, was higher than defense exports, which were at 15 billion.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
Based on our preliminary calculations, we may in the next six years spend 17 trillion roubles (Putin said billion, but meant trillion), but to achieve the goals that we have discussed, we will need an additional 8 trillion roubles. And it is clear where we are going to find them.
It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.
Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
I’m always smiling and happy.
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.
If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
If you want to be happy, be.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
To fill the hour – that is happiness.
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.
