"The lady gets up first and goes to bed last. Overwhelmed by love and all her talents, she serves her fellow men. He cares about his family, his friends, his surroundings and everything he comes into contact with. They make everything around them beautiful. Being a lady is a task."

"Only what we have given, we have."

"We have not taught children to understand that only what we have given, we have. The basic sentence that describes the 21st century is: "I look, therefore I exist." In the 19th it was: "I think, therefore I exist", and in the 20th it is: "I have, therefore I exist." The 21st century hurts me, because people somehow fail. I love language and speech, it is the greatest human achievement in development. I'm comforted that not everything will collapse while there are fantastic people who make us better than we are."

"My life is summed up in four words: people, love, work, joy."

"It's an actor's job to dig into himself."

"I can't explain it, the intuition I had that others have been convinced of. And I, whenever I disobeyed myself, repented."

"Life should be lived and loved, whatever it brings. It requires effort until it becomes part of your nature. You must not be angry with life, because life is a gift that should be respected, cherished, improved and fought to be beautiful and honorable!"

"The role of every artist is to fight for truth and justice. It is an ethical question, a knowledge that every artist should possess."

"Applauding politicians for building a hospital, a school or a road with citizens' money is the same as applauding an ATM because it paid you your money."

"We are becoming a society in which vulgarity is promoted as a way of communication, and this is unhealthy and dangerous. Young people are leaving the country because society has become immoral, vulgar in mutual communications."

"The fact is that Serbia has a beautiful nature, and that in politics it is considered that economic growth is more important than its preservation. As a result, we are witnessing the continued devastation of natural resources, which affects our health and our lives."

"With the Clapperboard of Bolji život (TV show) the better life (literary translate of the name of show) has come to an end in every sense of the word. The land in which all of us, the participants of the series, were born and lived until then, has crumbled in blood."

"After our departure, we are all forgotten."

"The world is better seen with your eyes closed."

"My success is that I was able to forget with the greatest pleasure all those things that were obstacles in my life."

"For Serbian people it is very important to see that the relationship with the Vatican are really very, very, old and I think that the most important message is that most representative people of Serbian intellectual elite, statesmen, professors of the university, politicians, were very fond of establishing the relationship with the Vatican. What is not very well known is that in that time the Vatican didn't have a lot of treaties and conquered that."

"The most important thing is that we show determination to continue the dialogue and that we will always try to solve everything by talking. I want to believe that it is possible."

"We don't have children to throw away, we have to protect Serbia. If only we hadn't participated in all the wars of the 20th century, we would be bigger than the Netherlands. We have to try to preserve peace, but not give away what is ours."

"Serbia has not and will not export weapons to Ukraine."

"We ask for a clear answer to the question I've been asking my interlocutors, leaders of many countries for years - what is the difference between the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia, which was grossly violated, and for which you provided international recognition and legitimacy, at least some of you? Nobody has ever provided a rational answer to that question."

"Come and bomb us, kill one Serb and we will kill 100 Muslims."

"I didn’t really have a lot of achievements, and what I am proud of today is hard work. I am proud of never having been lazy. As far as results are concerned, I can tell you that the fight against corruption and the economic reforms are what I am most proud of now, but looking back at that period – it is most certain that I have never been lazy and have never acted against my country."

"We can destroy all their party premises throughout Serbia. All of them."

"Milosevic was a great Serbian leader whose intentions were certainly for the best"

"Extremist ideas are something that will kill us all in the Balkans, something that will ruin our still very fragile democratic societies."

"And we have no limits, no restrictions on any of the social networks, unlike many Western European countries. We have 78 to 79 percent of our population using social networks. People just have their phones. And they have all different news in their phones."

"Serbs are very much attracted by the Western living standards, the standards of people. That’s why they like Germans. Because they bring their factories, they bring their plants to this country. They respect them very much. And the way of living is something that is preferable in the West than in the East, no doubt."

"It is very difficult to tackle people’s sentiments and people’s emotions. But this is our job to do it, to do everything in a very rational and realistic way."

"The Russians have their interests and we have ours. The Russians don't make us any gifts, but they have given us a good price."

"What I'm wondering is this: Why did the West open a Pandora's box in 2008 by recognizing Kosovo?"

"See, you say that Serbia will recognise the independence of Kosovo to get Republika Srpska in return. That's not going to happen. None of that is real nor good nor we need it, and this is all I can say about it. I refuse to speak about something that does not exist. We don't need the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina."

"We believe it is in the best interest of (Kosovo) Albanians and the international community ... to talk about a free flow of capital, people and services."

"Every time since 2014, when I first became the Prime Minister, we have had protests after every election. That is probably due to the influence of the social networks in which those people hide in closed-off political circles, ones in which they do not notice anyone else, where they love to listen to only what they want to hear and see. At the same time, that group of people, who held those protests, has continued to live in an echo chamber and, due to their false projections, were never able to recognize where the majority was. This political minority never understood what people in Serbia wanted, as it was easier for them to believe that they were the majority just because they surround themselves with those who think in the same way they do."

"If you live in a small country which is geographically at the crossroads, then your policy should be maintain peace and stability, either by not having arguments with anyone, which is impossible, or having arguments with everyone equally."

"Serbia is on its European path, but Serbia has to live, and has friends in the U.S. but it also has friends and it is not ashamed of them in Moscow and in Beijing."

"Sometimes we have to protect our military neutrality by being all alone."

"Many pianists are great, but Pogorelich is unique, like Rubinstein, their sound is instantly recognisable they both go beyond the notes ."

"First, technical perfection as something natural. Second, an insight into the development of the piano sound, as perfected by the pianist-composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, composers who understood the piano both as a human voice ... and as an orchestra with which they could produce a variety of colors. Third, the need to learn how to use every aspect of our new instruments, which are richer in sound. Fourth, the importance of differentiation."

"I shall return the same, once again joyful, risen, fearless ... I will be proud as you once knew me on glory-gilded fields."