Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.

Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

I also believe that most of the emerging economies have a fairly large amount of foreign exchange reserves, relative to 10 years ago.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

I feel quite confident there will never be a plane on the face of the Earth with my name on it.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.