Nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.

It's very much a matter of looking at what Russia did, which was to have political reform first and the economic reforms second. China wants to do it the other way around.