"I help design my own tennis clothes."

"I'd like to have a family."

"Without my dad, I wouldn't be here."

"Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss."

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"He who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"To love truly means recognizing that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."