Robert K. Massie Quotes

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.