Do you believe in the human heart? I don't mean simply the organ, obviously. I'm speaking in the poetic sense. The human heart. Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and individual?

可持续采石意味着像倾听股东一样认真地倾听土地的声音。

——2005年2月24日 斯洛伐克首都布拉迪斯拉发，在与美国总统布什共同举行的记者招待会上就布什批评俄罗斯民主而发言

我是另一个。如果铜醒来变成号角，那不是它的错。这对我来说很明显：我见证着我的思想的绽放：我看着它，我听着它：我拉一下琴弓：交响乐在深处骚动，或者一跃登上舞台。

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack.

Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.